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meatpieboy

meatpieboy

Korea, D.P.R.
June 2004

JAN 10, 2008 09:30 AM

larose404 said:
srsly?

Here's the part that I think is funny; Merriam-Webster's explanation of the etymology of 'w00t' suggests that

the exclamation is also known to be an acronym for "we owned the other team"_again stemming from the gaming community.


but their website doesn't provide a reference for this novel use of the verb 'own'



Define "novel", sir.

('Though it certain is slang.)

Hunkpapa

Hunkpapa

United Kingdom
June 2004

JAN 10, 2008 09:41 AM

good article... glad to see more DG!

Ms_Magdalena

Ms_Magdalena

Minneapolis, MN
February 2007

JAN 10, 2008 01:50 PM

The funniest thing about Merriam-Webster's compilation of "Words of the Year" is how much they resonate with the myspace/facebook generation, considering "Facebook" is number two, and "Quixotic" and "Apathetic" are also in the top ten, both of which being "moods" to choose from while blogging on myspace (and now just as a general cover-all mood).

I mean come on . . . hardly anyone knew what Quixotic meant until they saw it in the scrolldown menu and had to look it up, and probably from dictionary.com no less!

skeeve

skeeve

Boston, MA
September 2006

JAN 10, 2008 02:25 PM

Ms_Magdalena said:
The funniest thing about Merriam-Webster's compilation of "Words of the Year" is how much they resonate with the myspace/facebook generation, considering "Facebook" is number two, and "Quixotic" and "Apathetic" are also in the top ten, both of which being "moods" to choose from while blogging on myspace (and now just as a general cover-all mood).

I mean come on . . . hardly anyone knew what Quixotic meant until they saw it in the scrolldown menu and had to look it up, and probably from dictionary.com no less!



dictionary.com is awesome.
It's like google only it makes you look smart.

hk85

hk85

Guerneville, CA
October 2007

JAN 10, 2008 02:50 PM

w00t!
DG back FTW!

_DictionaryGirl_

_DictionaryGirl_

NEWSWIRE

San Diego, CA

JAN 11, 2008 01:46 PM

larose404 said:
srsly?

Here's the part that I think is funny; Merriam-Webster's explanation of the etymology of 'w00t' suggests that

the exclamation is also known to be an acronym for "we owned the other team"_again stemming from the gaming community.


but their website doesn't provide a reference for this novel use of the verb 'own'



My projection for M-W's 2008 Word of the Year: pwnz0r3d

Nessuno

Nessuno

Washington, DC
May 2006

JAN 11, 2008 02:14 PM

_DictionaryGirl_ said:

larose404 said:
srsly?

Here's the part that I think is funny; Merriam-Webster's explanation of the etymology of 'w00t' suggests that

the exclamation is also known to be an acronym for "we owned the other team"_again stemming from the gaming community.


but their website doesn't provide a reference for this novel use of the verb 'own'



My projection for M-W's 2008 Word of the Year: pwnz0r3d



What about lulz?

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